You can see it from the open lake, but it's still a long way to get to the castle.

Only the crescent moon hangs in the sky, and once it falls into the night, it quickly reaches the point where you can't see your fingers. Of course, this is for ordinary people, and neither of these two is ordinary people.

In fact, if they hadn't seen some faint lights in the castle in the distance, they would have planned to find an inn to stay in until the next day.

Passing by a few fishermen's houses by the lake at night, listening to the occasional sound of rough kidney groans, Xue Qiong suddenly said: "You see, although they have looted a lot of property from the neighborhood and come back, they can't even produce enough fuel, so no matter how rich they are, the only thing they can do at night is to make people." ”

"Not only that, but when you listen to their voices, you probably feel that you have money in your hands, and you don't panic... Amusing. ”

Canquillo was also accustomed to Xue Qiong's words coming up from time to time, so he didn't think much about it, but just asked casually, "What's so funny?" ”

"Isn't it ridiculous? You see, the towns around the neighborhood have become ghost towns, and they're taking it as a good thing... I just took a special look, and there are only about a dozen horses in the whole town, and most of them are still old horses that can't run fast and have lost their ability to reproduce, so they can only pull and grind. ”

"This means that they can't go further, and it means that even if they have more gold and silver, they can't actually buy even a pound of flour or a piece of cured meat."

"Soon, they will find that the gold and silver in their hands have turned to stone... Actually, there are already some clues, don't you notice that the prices here are higher than in New Seattle? ”

"And then the wave of people they have created with full force should be born, and the children will grow up to eat, and there is only this lake. Even if they expand their wheat fields and pastures, they will definitely not be able to keep up with the rate of population growth... This doesn't even take into account the carrying capacity of the environment. ”

"Then, when these kids grow up a little bit, this isolated town will be left with only a handful of hungry older generations, and more energetic, but equally hungry teenagers... What do you think will happen? ”

As Xue Qiong's sudden tirade came to an end, the two also walked into the grove by the lake, and the prelude to creating a new life in their ears gradually faded away, and Cankilo suddenly felt chills all over his body, hugged his arms and shook twice, "Damn, you're scared me to death!" ”

However, not only was it the only listener to the ghost story, but even Xue Qiong's shoulders shook imperceptibly.

Because he also felt a chill...

His night vision is better than Canquillo's, so he can notice that the oak and redwoods, which look straight and lush, are actually half dried on each tree—it's only September.

Although the dirt road under the feet of the two people was intuitively formed by people stepping on it too much, in fact, it was only because the shrubs on the ground had also died a lot, that this "forest path" was vacated between the trees.

The footsteps of hares, wild deer, and even wild cats and dogs, and the sound of birds flying can be heard occasionally even when marching on the Gobi, but after entering this wood, you can only feel a silence... If you listen intently, you can only hear the slightest movement of mice, bats, and moths.

The [vitality] in this forest has reached a very weak level.

Even, when a light breeze passed through the woods, bringing a strange sound like wailing, Xue Qiong's amphibian-like energy sensing ability also saw a faint flow of magic in the air... The attributes are dark, but they are relatively special, mixed with some pure soul energy, which is relatively close to the necromancer series, but there is no trace of manipulation and restraint on the standard necromancer or necromancer.

It only took a moment for him to connect with the word "Yin Qi" from these scenes, but what he was curious about was how these thin and faint but the total amount would never be small, and there was no specially controlled magic power, how could they be fixed here, and would not naturally dissipate and lose their characteristics?

But even if Xue Qiong had a thousand doubts in his heart at this time, he wouldn't say anything, after all, this was probably Xiao Yun's masterpiece, and if he scared away Canquillo, a playmate, the trip would become much more boring...

The distance around the lake is not far, but the terrain in the woodland is a little complicated, and the mentality and speed of the two of them are close to walking after dinner, so it will seem that they have trekked a little.

When the two of them came to the latte iron gate outside the courtyard of the stone castle, the first quarter moon in the night sky had not yet hung in the middle of the sky.

The three-story stone castle looks majestic in this town full of wooden bungalows, but it is actually not very big. From a closer look, it can also be seen that there is only one hall and several wings, and the total area is not more than 200 square meters.

The stones of the exterior walls are covered with moss and water stains, and they look dirty and old, with no flower heads. The only thing that catches the eye is the large and obviously well-tended garden behind the iron fence...

There, dense snow-white manju sawa is blooming enthusiastically under the moonlight.

The clusters of flowers seem to form an ocean, and the white waves rise and fall in the yin wind under the crescent moon.

Manzhu Sawa is also called the other side flower.

Xue Qiong took a deep breath, the other side of the flower is between chrysanthemums and garlic, and some indescribable and unique elegant aroma poured into the nasal cavity, but because there are too many of them, it seems to be strong, and in the midst of this, there is a faint and undetectable, but the sense of existence itself is very strong.

This made Xue Qiong notice that the plants in the flower garden were actually not only Manzhu Sawa kind, next to the snow-white sea of flowers that attracted all the attention, there was another plant that covered an area of almost the same size, but the growth was very different.

Lily.

Like Manzhu Sahua, the color of the lily is also snow-white, I don't know whether it is because of the contrast in quantity, or simply because this flower grows larger, or because the unyielding and fearless purity of the temperament even makes people feel a little great, compared to the dense Manzhu Sahua, after noticing these white pure and without a trace of flaws, few lilies, their "sense of presence" is much stronger in comparison.

But Xue Qiong's thinking is more tricky and strange.

The original purpose of his smell was just to see if there was a big smell of feces - primitive white civilization was extremely unhygienic, and medieval Europe was full of feces, and one of the reasons why high heels were invented was to reduce the feces on their feet when they went shopping... And the streets of Yuanhu Town are also covered with fertilizer without exception. He wanted to confirm whether there was such a smell, in order to confirm whether the owner of the castle was the "native" of the world.

Luckily, no... in every sense.

But here Xue Qiong had another question in his mind, since he didn't apply much fertilizer, how could those Manzhu Sawa bloom so well?

In addition, the "yin qi" here is also several times stronger than in the woods.

In contrast, Canquillo doesn't have any leisure to enjoy flowers, let alone find the smell of in the fragrance of flowers and wrap himself in, but when Xue Qiong raised his nose to smell, he passed his hand through the latte iron door, held the padlock on the iron chain, and touched the door twice.

didn't wait long, a middle-aged man with a neatly curly white wig (the same style as the TVB judge) and a neat black suit pushed open the gate of the castle, walked to the gate of the courtyard unhurriedly with precise steps, and bowed slightly no more than forty degrees before speaking: "It's so late, may I ask who the two are?" ”

didn't care about the content of the greetings, Xue Qiong and Kanjilo had only one thought in their minds at this time:

"British ?!!"

English also has an accent, and the difference between Britain and the United States is very obvious, regardless of Xue Qiong, who has experienced a lot of plot worlds, and in order to be familiar with the plot, he has made up for countless Western film and television works, even if most of the language level comes from the "language proficiency" strengthening, he can easily hear the reincarnation, Canquillo has a character of "from Hong Kong before crossing", and the British in the colonial period have seen a lot, so the two of them felt a strong sense of disobedience the moment they opened their mouths.

You know, where they are now is North America, although after the baptism of nuclear war, English is still the mainstream language, and it is a red-neck accent that is biased towards the American South... To use an inappropriate analogy, it's like you suddenly hear a few words of Shanghainese in the Northeast.

However, surprised and surprised, the two of them still looked as usual, and Xue Qiong, who was relatively more polite, also bowed in return, neither humble nor arrogant, but also followed the local customs, and changed to a British accent and said: "We are from New Seattle, and we are the guards recruited by Miss Flo." ”

The housekeeper, who looked very stylish, nodded, "Welcome." ”

Taking off the copper key on his waist, the butler slowly opened the padlock on the door, opened the two iron doors completely, and made a gesture of please, and then said, "Please come in." ”

Canquillo shrugged his shoulders and strode into the courtyard, anyway, he was confident in his own strength, and Longtan Tiger's Den broke through.

Xue Qiong, on the other hand, politely thanked him before going inside, but he didn't diligently help the housekeeper close the door, but just waited for him a little on the gravel road.

And by the way, I took a closer look at this British, who I don't know if it's true or not...

At first glance, the clothes on this product are very elegant, and they are the standard equipment of textbook British butlers, but on closer inspection, the various stitches and cuts are actually only ordinary level, and it is obvious that the people who require the production have far more aesthetic requirements than the world, but have to compromise with the crude standards of the tailors in the nearby villages.

In the strong "Yin Qi", it was impossible to detect any flow of magic power on this person's body, but his pale face and godless countenance, even if Xue Qiong did not have the ability to sense magic power, just with the naked eye and basic common sense, he could see that his [anger] had reached a very weak point...